UpCloud

How to Connect your UpCloud bucket to SimpleBackups

1. Create your UpCloud Bucket

• Sign in your UpCloud account at https://hub.upcloud.com/

• Go to https://hub.upcloud.com/object-storage/2.0/new or navigate to "Object Storage" and click on "New Object Storage"

• Select the location for your storage (think about GDPR rules, if you're an EU company)

• Make sure to keep "Public network access" option enabled

• Name your storage

• Click “Create Object Storage”

• After the storage is created, open the storage

• On “Overview” tab, you can find the s3 endpoint under “Public Access” section

• On “Buckets” tab, create your bucket.

• On “Users” tab, create a user.

• On the user created click “Access Key” to create a key

• Then, click on “Policy” to attach a policy, you may choose s3 full access or s3 read only access based on how you intend to use your storage

• Your Bucket name, in this example "my-bucket-1"

• Your Bucket region, in this example "fi-hel2"

• Your Bucket endpoint, in this example "https://obmdc.upcloudobjects.com"

• Your Bucket access key

• Your Bucket secret key

2. Connect your UpCloud bucket to SimpleBackups

• Go to the connect your storage page

• Select "UpCloud" as storage provider and fill in the "Connect your storage" form with the information from step 1.

• Key: Access Key described in step 1

• Secret: Secret Key described in step 1

• Region: Bucket location described in step 1

• Bucket: Bucket name described in step 1

• Endpoint: Storage endpoint described in step 1, make sure not to include the bucket name but only the storage (as described in the helper).

• Give your storage a name (usually we like to use the Bucket name) and click on "Save new storage".